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3 Billion Gallons Of Fracking Wastewater Pumped Into Clean California Aquifiers: "Errors Were Made" State Admits
Dear California readers: if you drank tapwater this morning (or at any point in the past few weeks/months), you may be in luck as you no longer need to buy oil to lubricate your engine: just use your blood, and think of the cost-savings. That's the good news.
Also, the bad news, because as the California’s Department of Conservation’s Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, California state officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump up to 3 billion gallons (call it 70 million barrels) of oil fracking-contaminated waste water into formerly clean aquifiers, aquifiers which at least on paper are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, and are protected by the government's EPA - an agency which, it appears, was richly compensated by the same oil and gas companies to look elsewhere.
And the scariest words of admission one can ever hear from a government apparatchik: "In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made."
Because nothing short of a full-blown disaster prompts the use of the dreaded passive voice. And what was unsaid is that the "biggest error that was made" is that someone caught California regulators screwing over the taxpayers just so a few oil majors could save their shareholders a few billion dollars in overhead fees.
And now that one government agency has been caught flaunting the rules, the other government agencies, and certainly private citizens and businesses, start screaming: after all some faith in the well-greased, pardon the pun, government apparatus has to remain:
“It’s inexcusable,” said Hollin Kretzmann, at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. “At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, we’re allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. It’s possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably.”
The process, for those confused, explained by NBC:
In “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing operations, oil and gas companies use massive amounts of water to force the release of underground fossil fuels. The practice produces large amounts of waste water that must then be disposed of.
Marshall said that often times, oil and gas companies simply re-inject that waste water back deep underground where the oil extraction took place. But other times, Marshall said, the waste water is re-injected into aquifers closer to the surface. Those injections are supposed to go into aquifers that the EPA calls “exempt”—in other words, not clean enough for humans to drink or use.
But in the State’s letter to the EPA, officials admit that in at least nine waste water injection wells, the waste water was injected into “non-exempt” or clean aquifers containing high quality water.
For the EPA, “non-exempt” aquifers are underground bodies of water that are “containing high quality water” that can be used by humans to drink, water animals or irrigate crops.
If the waste water re-injection well “went into a non-exempt aquifer. It should not have been permitted,” said Marshall.
Yet it was, to the tune of 3 billion gallons. And nobody said a word about it until someone finally did a little research and found that people, especially those in power, lie.
And lie they did because the severity of the pollution is only now becoming clear:
In its reply letter to the EPA, California’s Water Resources Control Board said its “staff identified 108 water supply wells located within a one-mile radius of seven…injection wells” and that The Central Valley Water Board conducted sampling of “eight water supply wells in the vicinity of some of these… wells.”
“This is something that is going to slowly contaminate everything we know around here,” said fourth- generation Kern County almond grower Tom Frantz, who lives down the road from several of the injection wells in question.
According to state records, as many as 40 water supply wells, including domestic drinking wells, are located within one mile of a single well that’s been injecting into non-exempt aquifers.
That well is located in an area with several homes nearby, right in the middle of a citrus grove southeast of Bakersfield.
Cue the just as angry community organizers:
“That’s a huge concern and communities who rely on water supply wells near these injection wells have a lot of reason to be concerned that they’re finding high levels of arsenic and thallium and other chemicals nearby where these injection wells have been allowed to operate,” said Kretzmann.
“It is a clear worry,” said Juan Flores, a Kern County community organizer for the Center on Race, Poverty and The Environment. “We’re in a drought. The worst drought we’ve seen in decades. Probably the worst in the history of agriculture in California.”
“No one from this community will drink from the water from out of their well,” said Flores. “The people are worried. They’re scared.”
It remains to be seen just whom that other, far more prominent community organizer will blame for this latest environmental debacle. Surely it will somehow be the fault of the Keystone pipeline?
In the meantime, the oil companies are already taking defensive measures, blaming the fiasco on... a "paperwork issue."
The trade association that represents many of California’s oil and gas companies says the water-injection is a “paperwork issue.” In a statement issued to NBC Bay Area, Western States Petroleum Association spokesman Tupper Hull said “there has never been a bona vide claim or evidence presented that the paperwork confusion resulted in any contamination of drinking supplies near the disputed injection wells.”
Well, actually, there is:
However, state officials tested 8 water supply wells within a one-mile radius of some of those wells.
Four water samples came back with higher than allowable levels of nitrate, arsenic, and thallium.
Those same chemicals are used by the oil and gas industry in the hydraulic fracturing process and can be found in oil recovery waste-water.
And now back to the source of it all: the California Department of Conservation, where we are confident a little further investigative reporting will find millions in kickbacks and corruption, all funded by the oil and gas "lobby."
When asked how this could happen in the first place, Marshall said that the long history of these wells makes it difficult to know exactly what the thinking was.
“When you’re talking about wells that were permitted in 1985 to 1992, we’ve tried to go back and talk to some of the permitting engineers,” said Marshall. “And it’s unfortunate but in some cases they (the permitting engineers) are deceased.”
Kern County’s Water Board referred the Investigative Unit to the state for comment.
We hope to learn who the state will refer the unit for comment next.
Finally, for those living around the blue dots, avoiding the tapwater for the time being may be a good idea.
As for whether the public's opinion about fracking is changed as a result of revelations such as this: we reserve judgment until comparative Investigative Units piece uncover how many billion gallons in fracking wastewater was dumped in other states where the shale miracle is (still) alive and well.
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good luck people of america, if you believe in paper and promises by your investment bankers. The whole thing is one big scam.
Easy ...make them pay clean up costs.
Its not an accident.
RIPS
Now that the 'election' is over, we can find out what the fookers have been up to
SLUUUUURP..........man thaz sum good water
Mistake, my ass.
We fracked some folks..
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Enabling
Pollution
Agency
Everybody knows you dump your toxic waste in the ocean. Dumb asses.
Another reason not to live in that sh*t hole known as Cali.
All one has to do is hire a parrot that squawks "This will create more jurbs" over and over and one can do practically anything. It's sad and pathetic.
"I didn't do it."
OJ Simpson
The solution to pollution........is dilution!!
Nah, just flare your tap water before cooking with it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8
USA = China. But don't worry, I'm sure that could NEVER happen to the Ogalala Aquifer, one of the largest in the world, with the soon-to-be Keystone XL Pipeline running right over it.
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Next thing you know, there will be bloated hog carcasses...
Floating down Kalifornica's rivers.
Oh wait... the rivers all dried up.
"Innocent mistake," the portly state officials told the sub-[missive]-committee.
~"The trade association that represents many of California’s oil and gas companies says the water-injection is a “paperwork issue.”"~
You can hear them now:
"Yeah..., paperwork issue, that's the ticket!"
Makes you wonder how many pieces of "paperwork", (in the shape of FRNs), will it take to resolve this "issue", because, you know, Moonbeam Brown is considering running in 2016, and that takes a lot of... paperwork to run a campaign! One thing is for certain, no one is going to go to jail over this. NO ONE.
you will not hear about this on any of the corporate controlled news programs.
gee.. will all that sludge make mexifornia browner?
Ok, so their bone marrow is fried by Fuki radiation and now their livers will be toxified by chemical watse in their water.
Sounds Bullish for Oncologists !
http://www.wakc.com/index.php/about-wakc/history-and-mission-2
"Our Sponsors: Chevron"
BTW, Kern county is Republican by a wide margin, so naturally I blame Al Gore.
CIA covert illegal mexican depopulation ops.
print water...
~"you will not hear about this on any of the corporate controlled news programs."~
Maybe, maybe not. I do agree this has political stink all over it.
BTW, nice cheechees, 4chan!
You appear to be correct: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=california+aquifers+contaminated&tbm=nws
Fucking thieves, 2 more yrs. and out of this POS state.
Gold Bitchez.....I pick up pennies
The sooner you move out, the better: Avoid the carcinogens!!! There are so many things that are carcinogenic only to people known to be living in the state of California.
So the great ecological disaster is poisoned aquifers in CA or is it Fukushima or was it the Gulf oil spill?
Buzzzzzt!!
Wrong!!
It's global climate change!!
LOL, what a croque of shit!
I prefer croquets of shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ReqXzcNGAw
Normally, I don't care about down arrows, but I consider the global climate change hoax to be a crime against humanity.
Hope to see you folks in the dock some day.
Mmmm delicious cocktail of fracking waste water and pesticide/herbicide runoff. I'm thirsty, where's the trough?
USA - feeding and energizing the planet!
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Greetings Valued Surfers and Sun Tanned, Parched-Skinned Californians! No worries, Mon. I’m sure the toxic levels are well below lethal potency … just in case, simply as a precaution, please report any sign of thyroid enlargement, double vision, increased nervousness, slurred speech, fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, Bob Dole Syndrome (erectile dysfunction), obesity, diabetes, failure to concentrate, desire to drink large amounts of an alcoholic beverage, or any other symptom, syndrome or illnesses you may be experiencing to the nearest FEMA shower facility.
Best regards,
Your Local FEMA Representative
We gozt to frack and put the water back...
/came to my warped mind based on if the glove fits, you must acquit...
Californias are immune to chemical poisoning as long as it is done by the blessed Democrats.
Half of the states water supply is contaminated by MTBE that the state agencies reviewed / approved under protest. Afterwards, Californians, along with their chemical cocktail enjoyed the pleaseure of being anally taxed to pay for the cleanup. (And you wonder why the gov machine wants a stupid electorate...)
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/MTBE....
http://pushback.com/issues/environment/smog-check-testimony/
No, you've got it wrong. This was a purposeful release so Governor Moonbeam can successfully launch a massive cleanup to illustrate the effectiveness of government agencies. Then he will announce his candidacy for POTUS with Hitlery as his running mate for jollies. Suffering form continual onslaught from Fukushima and Fracking will further degrade the mental acuity of the Cali voter, who will now have only the characteristic of a phototrophic amoeba and vote for the shiny waving bauble presented.
I am hoping those in other states will stop this as I have given up having clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right.
Miffed
It may well have been intentional, but not for that reason. There seems to be a concerted effort to destroy the productivity of the central valley, where this is located. It's a big deal, that is the most productive agricultural area in the world, or something.
It fits with the "destroy 90% of people" hypothesis, seems to me. Food is sorta important if you want to keep people alive.
You’re wrong, too!
Think. Think.
Hint: Most of California wells are vertical.
Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
Vodka, that's what they drink. But never water.
But, can they remain in a vertical position?
I rather doubt Gov Brown did that! He's not that kind of corrupt paid-off politician and surely doesn't want a challenge like this, he he is due to vote on a fracking ban and I believe he will do it. Think he's not a decent guy? Why the fuck would he want mayor of fking OAKLAND? then.
Dumbasses?? yeah no wonder Californians are getting dumber and dumber....basically from using water either from Fukushima or their own reserves.
Frakapalooza
FRACK! There goes my EROEI!!!!
Only californians getting dumber and dumber ??? Did I miss something
"If you want to keep your Pelosi, you can keep your Pelosi."
Sheeit, man. They are just bypassing monsanto and fortifying our produce without the middleman.
Brawndo not only has electrolytes it lubricates, too!
And the EPA SWAT teams Gibsons guitar plant....
Nice.
Frackushima
How the f#€k else are we supposed to get Godzilla...
General Decline
I thought only radiation (yea I know at these levels it's toxic) goes in the ocean.
Ok Fukishima
...and if you drink bottled water, you might want to read the label to see whose municipal tap water you're guzzling.
My BIL has a free flowing spring about 10 miles from his house in Charlotte. Good stuff.
My family's land in NY has a free flowing spring on top of the property. That water is excellent, especially after humping the mountain all day.
pods
"...and if you drink bottled water, you might want to read the label to see whose municipal tap water you're guzzling."
Iv'e always envisioned a sweaty Mexican filling up fancy bottles from his tap in his kitchen and then sending them off to Evian for resale.
That would be a great name for a bar in San Diego.
"The Sweaty Mexican"
Evian spelled backward is Naive
What better way to get people to buy water then to poison their tap water. Now all they need is to add electrolites for the plants and you have your Idiocratcy Movie as a live show we all can enjoy.
No shit. Water's for toilets!
Brawndo!
If your spring has at least 100 feet of head you may be abke to build your own micro hydro generator and power your whole property no problems. Intital cost is much less than solar.
I studied the tech and designs, I just don't have any property with proper spring or creek placement.
SH
Only if you get 'permission' from the Feds and/or state jursidiction to manipulate their water. BTDT, and gave up.
... You didn't make that water....
...and if you drink bottled water, you might want to read the label to see whose municipal tap water you're guzzling.
and if you eat food irrigated in the central valley...
Fracked 'em REAL good!
Oh Frak! Frak it! They're Frakking Frakked!
Paging Erin Brockovich. Call on line 1.
You didn't frack that.
you bastard - I spit coffee all over my screen.
"Errors were made."
No, "Bribes were made."
With even more to be garnered in 'fines' and future campaign contributions.
Everyone of those MF'rs and their progeny should be made to drink & bathe in it for EVAH or choose brass to the cranium with organ harvesting.
Agenda 21 in action...
All of it from the drought to this. The ultimate in sheep herding & crowd control.
Notice when they do it it's an error,but when we do it it's a crime
One more reason to rename CA, the granola state.
I've said this before on this subject and it applies to all others. The embedded corruption / fascism in the north american business community has rendered every sector weaponized.
Fracking and energy extraction is fine if it's done properly, in proper areas. The fact that things like the clean water act ( LOL thanks DICK! ) and a litany of other things allow business to do whatever they want guarantees our eventual destruction.
It also guarantees an immature argument betweeen "Fuck fracking see, it's dangerous" and "drill baby drill" when the middle ground is all that needs to be taken.
Same goes for pharma, same goes for the banks, same goes for food, same goes for everything. The world has stage 4 cancer thanks to these assholes and we're all arguing about a new hairstyle.
Time to blame Russia, Syria, Iran, and/or North Korea.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
I'll take the heat for the bad haircut, but that's all.
FUCK fracking.
Explains why I have the shits all the time.
Listen.
It's an American "THING", I guess.
So if you drink shit water all the time, do you adapt to it and not have, you know, the shitz all the time?
Tough to believe that this happened in California of all places.
pods
I'm not surprised. Like most politicians, Moonbeam is a Big Oil whore.
Two words..
Nancy Pelosi..
We have to frak it to see what's in it...
As in every case big government screwups....
"In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made."
TPTB will say we have identified the problem and "it will never happen again"
I say, who is going to be fired? Who is going to jail? If bad deeds don't have consequences then big goverment will continue to screw the very people who pay for their existence.
"I want some Butts!
Who is going to hang feels more correct. Who do we guillotine? Who do we execute only scratches at the surface of the evil this represents. You do not repeat this accident so often that 3 BILLION barrels of the shit goes into clean aquifers.
We need the water before we need the energy-- suicidal, psychopathic, dumb asses.
Yes. We must re-elect it to find out what's in it.......
Krugman just came in his pants...this is will lead to clear economic growth. the clean up will put people back to work and the lawyers will get work sueing everyone and defending the oil and gas companies. its a win win
Even better: People who thought they could escape the grid will now go back on (if they are close to municipal water supplies) or they will have years of very profitable mystery illnesses from drinking wellwater. Have you ever googled a list of frackwater chemicals? Absolutely shocking. Many of them are also secret. America's self-sufficiency is being poisoned forever. Thanks, Illuminati.
There is also rainwater collection, but you must hide your system because they can jail you for that now. Along with feeding the homeless, growing vegetables in your front yard, selling raw milk, etc, etc.
Ahh yes money is the answer to everything.
Can't buy an "undo" which is the only thing that could fix this.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
~ Cree Indian Proverb
There were Cree folks on Easter Island? Quick, call Jared Diamond.
In related news, Haliburton is pushing for a no-bid contract on a time machine.
Yeah, hali wants to go back and make sure they fucked up everything. They missed a few things.
San fran likes their ass fucking, not sure how they deal with the ass fracking. Maybe it is already lubed.
Oily to bed,
Oily to rise,
Makes a man nasty,
Unhealthy, and unwise.
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The fracking companies will find it far less expensive to buy off a few politicians and have themselves reclassified as bank holding companies, thus making themselves exempt from all laws.
Phew...just heard BP is dumping the remainder of the Corexit on it...problem solved
Hooooooly shit... i laughed so hard i cried, or is it, i was crying so hard this made me start laughing?
FFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK these facsist fucking piiiiigs!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNrPPHFVQo
Payment made in crematories.
Let them eat cake....
..... no worries..... Mother Nature will clean it up in about 100,000 years.....
And so we will, Yellow Cake.
Fracking is completely safe and if you are opposed to being poisoned, then you are a turrist lovin', fascist, Muslim, commie socialist!
Interesting enough, it was Chervon in NYC federal court who asked to move the trial to Ecuador and swore they would obey the court ruling there. Now some 16 Billion $$$ later they repudiate it all and little Ecuador is fooked while the US courts turn their noggins. Ho-hum, another day in paridise.
Milestones
Yum!
See Texaco/Chevron and Ecuador.
You sure got that one right, Deathrips.
The atmosphere of brooding dread, the pollution, ... One or two of the ancient Greek philosophers perceived that this might be explained, either by a movement of the entire heavens around the earth, or by a turning motion on the part of the earth itself.
http://www.e-freetranslation.com/english/ancient_greek.html
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/philosophy-metaphysics-heraclitus.htm
Follow the "pollution", you will find the enemy.
Kinda like follow the money.
How do they pay clean up costs when it is currently impossible to fully clean up what has been injected? At best they can try and contain the tainted water and over time reduce the level of contaminents by pumping out the dirty water and letting clean water at the boundaries slowly permeate in and flush out the contaminents. Might even need to inject billions of gallons of pure water at the boundries to get the flushing done.
That will cost billions and take a few centuries.
In the meantime the frackers should provide virtually unlimited pure water to those whose water supplies are tainted and for as long as the water remains tainted. If that requires them to truck in hundreds of water tankers daily from interstate springs then that expense will teach other frackers not to mess with the water supply.
Easy ...make them pay clean up costs.
Clean up with what?
Pay the costs with what?
Yellen...We need to print up some Water.
Dilution is the solution to pollution.
Except there is one problem...a lack of the Universal Solvent (Water) in order to do that trick.
And with the drought, and since the water is underground...I do not think that the solution will manifest in the near future.
BTW...If you think that this is California's problem...I hope that you are all enjoying your morning glass of Orange Juice. Maybe it is from that Citrus Grove. Enjoy your dose of Thallium and the cancer that it will cause.
The Frackers will pull a Monsanto before they ever clean up their own mess.
Class Action against California and the EPA or just a revolution?
Never happen, this is in Nancy Pelosi's back yard.
She had to Frac it, to see what's in it.
Hope, Hope and Change!!!
Revolution may be the only option. Nothing is going to change otherwise. Greed and corruption are just too endemic..
(There are some juicy targets of Oil Refineries in the Long Beach area. Maybe someone will take them out. Then they won't need to frack there as there is no one close by to refine it. If I were the owner of that Citrus Grove...FUCK THE MONEY and FUCK SUIING. I'd actually consider what I wrote as an option. That is HERITAGE which cannot be replaced. Do you know how long it takes to make a Citrus Grove productive? They cannot print their way out of everything. Sooner or later they will fuck with the wrong person. Then it will be on...)
Hey Yellen...Print up some WATER.
They're just lubing the tectonic plates so they don't stick to each other.
About damn time, too. All that moaning and creaking is scaring the hell out of my dog.
He's a fairly big pooch. Do you have any idea how much booze it takes to make them calm down?
Plus, he drinks a lot of it, too.
If you like your clean water.....you can keep your clean water.
The solution is simple. The State gives the company or companies involved 90 days to clean it up....pay for ALL damages to businesses and individuals alike. If they can't or won't the State comes in and takes over the business and fires every last executive. The business is put on the auction block to any other Oil company who wants their play but THEY must fully pay for ALL damages and clean up before they can take ownership. If so....swell....sell the offending company off. If not, then sell off the assets to the highest bidder and dare any other fracking company to do that shit again.
You really....sometimes.....need the power of the State to kick these scumbag oil companies in the balls to make them do right. Because there is WAY TOO MUCH money to be made in doing wrong.
Oh.....and to the downvoters. Where was the "Free Market" when this shit was going down? Where were the "Free Market" inspectors? What about all those "Free Market" frackers touting the saftey protocols that go into Fracking and groundwater safety?
I'm not a Socialist by any means. It has been the scourge of mankind since its inception. But you can't tout the Free Market when the Free Market has clearly failed. I'll take the "evil" of the State kicking this "evil" in the balls....if only for this special occasion.
Otherwise.....if you are going to downvote.....you had better pony up a DAMN good explanation how the so called "Free Market" could have prevented this or how it could have policed this better.
"But you can't tout the Free Market when the Free Market has clearly failed."
From the article:
California state officials allowed oil and gas companies...
"Otherwise.....if you are going to downvote.....you had better pony up a DAMN good explanation how the so called "Free Market" could have prevented this."
Unlike a resource owned and controlled by the gooberment, a private co-operative for example would have an interest in protecting the underlying resource, and would have a clear case for seeking remedy for damages caused by the actions of other parties.
The State officials did not do the fracking. They did not get in the business of fracking. They did not use the poisons needed to do fracking. They only opened the door for the Big Fracking to do the wrong thing.
These fracking companies involved could have easily come up with disposal plans that did not harm their fellow citizens.....potentially fellow family members.
It does not matter in the least if the door was WIDE open. THEY....DID....NOT.....HAVE....TO.....WALK.....THROUGH !!!!
Do the right thing....no matter if the State or anyone else says you can do wrong and we won't tell. The FINAL responsibility goes to the Big Fracking. Period. End of story.
In the pure Libertarian version, the entire aquifer would be owned by a person or group, who would not allow an outsider to come in and use their property.
Also, there probably would not be limited liability protection through corporations, so the individual owners and operators of the company would be personally liable, which in theory is a big deterant. Not certain on this though, check with a Libertarian thinker for their views on limited liability.
You're solution seems to be "if everyone was a good person, everything would work out fine" ...
You seem to think if everyone was Libertarian things would work out fine. All our delusions of a better way to do things fails when humans finally apply the theory in practice.
And no..I do not think if we were all better people things would work out fine. But these companies.....these "free market companies".....knew what they were doing was wrong even if they had permission by an equally or more corrupt State. They made a knowledgable and willing decision based on nothing more than greed to take advantage of a corrupt government. They did not have to dispose of their pollutants the way they did. There are long established protocols they could have chosen as a sovereign and free market company. The owners of these companies willingly and knowledgebly chose the wrong thing to do to the detriment and danger of their fellow citizens.
Burn them to the ground. Take over their businesses. Fire the executives. Sue them for every penny they own. And ban them for life from the industry. Let them work at McDonalds....like the rest of us.
There were no free market corporations involved. Corporations in their modern form are creatures of the state.
"Burn them to the ground. Take over their businesses. Fire the executives. Sue them for every penny they own. And ban them for life from the industry. Let them work at McDonalds....like the rest of us."
None of that is going to happen, thanks to the gooberment.
Jumbotron and others...
A "pure Libertarian system" is a Hopium Pipe Dream.
Most people, when given a free choice, will opt for ENSLAVEMENT.
You cannot change that. It is HARDWIRED into the DNA. Humans are Herd Animals. It is their NATURE to follow the Alpha Male.
You cannot change Human Biology. It is like expecting that the proverbial scorpion will not sting that frog carrying him across the stream on his back. It is like expecting that proverbial frozen Rattlesnake not to bite that Indian Brave who saved its life by carrying it off of the Mountain Peak.
If you believe that Libertarianism will ever happen then you are DREAMING and refusing to deal with reality. You cannot change Nature...including Human Nature.
You had best learn to ACCEPT IT and move onward toward the things which you can change. And that change is pretty much limited to changing your own self.
That Libertarian System bullshit is a ruse, a RED HERRING ARGUMENT, Jumbotron, as it detracts from the reality at hand.
Truthfully THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS to ANY of the problems at hand.
Stop wasting your time looking for leaders and learn to lead yourselves.
"You cannot change Human Biology"
That's what genetic engineering is for.
For those of you who have not seen THE CORPORATION, it is well worth the time.
Here it is...
http://www.knowledgeoftoday.org/2012/12/the-corporation-documentary.html
A portion of the film compares psychopathic behavior of humans to those of the Power Players and their Mega Companies
And another documentary called Blue Gold, Water Wars...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1a3tjqQiBI
A stealthy, calculated, and ongoing operation by the Corporations ( think Nestle and Coca Cola) to secure water rights across the globe.
We are being EVIAN'd. You think things suck now? Imagine what our kids are going to endure. I have one child who believes she's living the California dream. She's a level headed kid, am I'm doing my best to help her wake up.
Hug your children now if they're near. I'd give an arm for the opportunity.
psycobilly, that doesn't always work as the underlying resource (the land and aquifers) has a lower value than the costs of preventing contamination or cleaning it up. Sometimes the free market polluters find it cheaper to own the land, pollute the shit out of it and then abandon ownership when finished. That is what you find in many old mining towns and that leaves future generations up shit creek.
The government permitted the companies to dispose of their waste in those locations, so the companies are likely not liable.
Of course the companies are liable. There is a wrong way and a right way to dispose of this stuff. There is precedent. Even if the govenment of California left the door WIDE open.....these companies did not have to walk through. They knew what was right to begin with. They willfully chose not to do it. They broke environmental law. Even if the very lawmaking entity California let them. California is clearly liable for their part. But Big Fracking is liable in the end.....for they had a choice. They chose wrong.
Would you like to place a wager on whether the courts will determine that one of the private companies is liable for damages due to contaminating the aquifer, which had been permitted by the government?
Sure you moron. It's fucking California !
There has to be an actual pay-out, and the ruling cannot be overturned by a higher court. What kind of time limit would you like? A payout by a fracking company within 10 years? You want to bet bitcoins or have a different prefered propositional betting platform?
..as if any gummint bureaucracy has solved any major problem for the hard working tax paying citizens of the U.S.
"Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." R. Reagan
So says the guy who didn't see a problem using government to funnel trillions of our money into the Forever War Machine.
So says the guy who unleashed the hoard of bankers and the Greatest Ponzi Scheme ever through deregulation.
So says the guy who gave amnesty to illegals and set the stage for Obama's scheme.
So says the guy who raised taxes several times during his 8 years.
Ronny Ray Gun was nothing but a shill for the D.O.D. and the Banksters. In other words......the N.W.O.
How would this whole situation play out in an anarcho-capitalism?
I don't buy this whole story at face value. 1- the so called injection well they pointed to in the video clip was using a class 150 psi failed closed valve. No way a so called deep injection well is pumping at only 150 pis of pressue, not happening.
2- the gentleman being interviewed stated it appears the contaminants were most likely from back ground. Meaning not same material as was injected from oil and gas companies. I would think they have had since 1985 to fucking get a proper test done. That is typical EPA bull shit talk IMO. These test take days to have results back, so these Tards are trying to make us buy they have been waiting how long? Since 1985? Lol, what ever.
3- I have a hard time believing that pumper jack, oil well jacks shown are producing the volumes of waste water they refer to. 70 million barrels? Really?
I call BS. This is some kind play to fire up the Base of Liberal Technocrats up. The whole story has mega factual holes all over in it.
The really really good news is that you can run your SUV on your tap water. WTF are you complaining about?
Most of the US fresh water supply will be contaminated in the very near future.
one big fracking scam....yeah, but who goes to jail?
I bet no one....corruption is a bitch for the just and the law abiding citizen.....
until they wake the fuck up starving and broke and have nothing left to lose....
then they roll out the big razor blade.
Too bad it won't happen in my lifetime.
Vv
Everyone involved with poisoning the California aquifers with thallium should be locked up in Folsom prison. Wikipedia: Thallium was once an effective murder weapon before its effects became understood. Indeed, thallium poisoning has been called the "poisoner's poison" since thallium is colorless, odorless and tasteless; its slow-acting, painful and wide-ranging symptoms are often suggestive of a host of other illnesses and conditions.
Its only Nitrates, Arsenic and Borates - Nothing that won't break down (eventually) in a human corpse during de-composition. Thallium in aqueous solution is only absorbed through skin or Mucus membranes. Was a great rat poison till someone complained it was cruel to Rats, and was then banned. Because of its use in murder, Thallium has gained a the nickname "the Inheritance powder" along side Arsenic. Oh wait I mentioned Arsenic
These are the others Not to be mentioned because it is "Just like making Icecream"
https://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used
And you worry about Ebola (at least it is quick)
Thirsty yet for your Inheritance
Bahahahahahaha... quick somebody bottle this stuff and market it as "FractoeJuice the ultimate slurp and burp". Should sell like gang busters.
Miffed must be really miffed now. She lives in CA.
Time for GS to broker the sale of CA back to MX, as is.
Mexico already invaded, why would they pay for something the Mexicans already own?
Friends moved to Cali from Mexico ... stayed for a while then move to North Carolina ... Why? Too many Mexicans.
So that is the sludge at the bottom of California's 100 year drought.
Cheers America, to your central planners, you could not have fucked a countries environment up faster and furious than this. It would even make the Chinese blush.
Oil, it's what's for dinner
no. no error. you re supposed to buy your water, dont you know?
3 billion gallons of fracking water will only contaminate 3000 billion gallons of drinking or agricultural water. And water prices are only up 700% this year in California. Besides, fracking needs some breaks given it is only profitable at oil above $80.
Forward.
Food Inflation Watch: California Farmers' Water Costs Surge 700% After Government Cuts Supplyhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-24/food-inflation-watch-california...
Buy a Berkey, lest you go berserky.
I think Alex Jones at Infowars endorses this also. As does Kirk.